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A quick guide to all DWP benefits, services, grants and credits.

If you have got a family, visit this section to find out about benefits and services you may be entitled to.

Information for all people of working age about jobs, training and benefits and services you may be entitled to, whether unemployed, looking for work or in part or full-time employment.

Details about all benefits and services you may be able to get if you are a pensioner, have retired or are planning for retirement.

Disability
Up-to-date information for disabled people about benefits, employment policy and rights.

How to get in touch with DWP by post, phone, fax or email.

• Ministers
  Biographies of the ministerial team and how to contact them.
• Complaints and appeals
  In this section you'll find:
  • How to make a complaint about any of the DWP services or about a decision you
    think is wrong.
  • How to appeal against a decision.
• Helplines
  For all DWP benefits and services.
• Your local office
  Section includes a facility to find your social security office, Child Support Agency office, Disability Benefit Centre and your Jobcentre.

An overview of the DWP's aims and objectives and its structure including its services:

• Jobcentre Plus
• Child Support Agency
• The Pension Service

Find out who to contact about working for the Department. You can also read about equal opportunities and Investors in People.

Useful sources of information for professionals, advisers and researchers about the Department and its policies and strategies.

• Publications
  This page gives you access to current or past DWP publications. Includes policy, strategy and benefits and services literature.
• Analytical Services Division
  Produces quantitative support and a full range of analytical tools. Produces reports and information through research and statistics to help ministers formulate policy and managers deliver the Department's services more efficiently.
• Information for advisers
  A useful resource for people who advise on benefits and related DWP services either professionally or voluntarily. It includes technical guides to services, legal and medical framework documents and newsletters

• Cymraeg
  Translations in Welsh of the most commonly requested DWP leaflets. Translations in Welsh of New Deal material also available.
• Other languages
  Translations in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Gujarati, Punjabi, Somali, Urdu and Vietnamese of the most commonly requested DWP leaflets. Translations of general information about New Deal - available in Bengali, Cantonese,
  Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu and Vietnamese.

How to contact the Press Office plus access to press releases.

Up-to-date information on the latest additions to the website and any policy changes.

Brings you regular news stories about benefits, jobs and training.

Want to make this site easier for you to read? See our Accessibility section.

Web addresses for DWP related sites, former DfEE sites which are now run by DWP, other government departments and related organisations.